Recovery Tube Trade-Off Study for Reentry Ground Test Facility

Abstract

An analytical study was performed to optimize the design of a projectile recovery tube for a large scale track guided projectile range for testing reentry vehicles. The projectile is recovered in this device by guiding it with a track into a compartmented tube where it compresses gas and is thus decelerated by pressure forces. The recovery tube design was optimized to produce minimum projectile damage and system cost. Projectile damage due to ablation, structural loading, and material property changes where analytically predicted for a matrix of recovery tube design options. Model damage was found to be small in all cases.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA029571

Entities

People

  • T. C. Derbidge
  • T. J. Dahm

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Boundary Layer
  • California
  • Control Systems
  • Cost Analysis
  • Cost Estimates
  • Engineering
  • Flow Fields
  • Flow Visualization
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Heat Transfer
  • Heat Transfer Coefficients
  • Inviscid Flow
  • Isotherms
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanics

Fields of Study

  • Engineering
  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerodynamics/Aeronautics.
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • ballistics.